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...American complex about weight by stressing that hard-wheat spaghetti contains only 300 calories a serving and is rich in B and E vitamins. Agnesi hopes to prove that it is also so filling that Americans, who can be distinguished at the table by their knife, fork, spoon, twirl, twist, scoop, slurp, and even chop, techniques, will not reach for richer foods...
...colleges have always had their ancient rivalries, marching bands and majorettes. But their battle cry was usually "three yards and a cloud of dust." The pros learned that bands can be hired, Copa girls can be taught to twirl a baton, and all rivalries get ancient after a while. When they also discovered the forward pass-the tantalizer, the equalizer, something everyone in the stands could see-they were on their way to owning the world. The forward pass was not invented by the pros; it had been around since 1906. But in the hands of such quarterbacks as Sammy...
...Mori) he develops a masterly portrait of the power complex, and in scene after scene he examines with incinerating irony a way of life in which profits come first and people last. Occasionally the actors, trained to the grand grimace in the Japanese theatrical tradition, seem all set to twirl their mustachios and scream: "How now, me proud beauty!" But within his conventions Kurosawa is a realist, and when he does a caricature he does it in acid. The Bad Sleep Well is not quite so strong as his strongest pictures, but it has the vulgar energy, the cutting relevance...
Playful? Make your own phone ring. Dial 911, wait for the tone, twirl a seven, and hang...
Children's recordings used to find some of their finest inspirations up in tree houses and down in rabbit holes. Nowadays, they enviously twirl around the television screen. Nobody makes a bigger noise on Kidiscs than Yogi Bear or Huckleberry Hound. Accordingly, holiday record-shop browsers this year will meet the likes of Professor Ludwig von Drake (Disneyland), Quick Draw McGraw (Golden), Popeye the Sailor Man (Peter Pan) and Felix the Cat (Play Hour)-all of them shouting, giggling and bleating out jokes and songs with hectic abandon. But the children's market still offers more than...